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Swab that nose dude.

Is Musk going to pay off the 85 million dollar settlement offer for Jones? He lost the company 75 million dollars in a little over a month by simply endorsing a single neo-Nazi post. Jones has a judgement for slandering the parents of murdered kids. Something Musk apparently cared about a short year ago

I guess that jobs report means that economists will talk about more "tough love" for people.

There's been this weird pile of whataboutism surrounding his ouster from the goofy sides of the House along with a chunk of the right.

There is a barred owl that hangs out in the trees across the street all summer here that I've thought about ending. Not really, I couldn't kill anything, but it can be annoying, that same sequence of hoots all night.

I kind of wonder if it's the destruction of the entry level job. I started my white collar career as a clerk, I had to be the person to manage the amalgamation of trash and hellfire that was the Xerox Workcentre along with the shitty "Only works in IE6" data warehouse for my department. Thanks to automation clerical work and data entry aren't really as prevalent as they once were so there's no real onramp to develop the soft skills of the modern workplace. It also could just be journalists looking for a story, I've run into plenty of people in the middle or latter part of their careers who learned how to set up a meeting in Outlook from me for the first time.

Fuck printers, if a third of the population can't figure out how they work then maybe Cannon and Xerox will update the UI that they paid a retiree $50 to create in 1997. Those things cost like $25,000 a piece, their primary job is to melt black powder on paper and they can and will fail at that spectacularly and often. I was a clerk 2011-2012 and I don't blame anyone for not knowing how to make their way through the nested shitpile of menus to do basic things that make up the office document center. It was a joke 24 years ago in Office Space "PC load letter, what the fuck does that mean?" and those overpriced piles of garbage haven't gotten better. Them falling for scams more is a bummer though, is there like a curve for that where boomers get scammed online, Gen X and millenials do better, then zoomers loop back around to being susceptible?

Those are a couple tasks that I feel like not everyone needs to know. I write like 3 checks a year max and the only people I've seen use a fax machine in the last decade or so is the medical industry. Like we sent and received faxes of medical records at my time at anthem, but even then we used a cloud fax service on our end. As far as the topic goes, teaching math is hard. In school it's just drills of concepts that they don't connect to the reality everyone lives in. I assume the degredation of reading comes from the fact everything now is absorbed in short bites.

My little Ranger had the spare slung underneath, trucks meant for work are probably going to pick up a nail or screw at some point, so having a spare tire is nifty. Of course trucks meant for work would also be able to take a bed toolbox. Just like the trucker's friend, the Tesla Semi and its goofy center cabin seat, gonna be able to hand that paperwork to the guard shack nice and easy, after you stand up and bend through the window

There are parking lots filled with enormous trucks in pristine condition here in Ohio and most of them aren't used for work. There is certainly a cultural thing around big trucks in the US that's disconnected from any utility, especially out here in the middle of the country.

I had an '03 Ford Ranger, stick shift. Mechanically not a great vehicle, but a nice sized usable bed because it wasn't taken up by a useless crew cab, small enough not to be a pain in the ass and got good gas mileage. But at some point the F-150 became the small size for a truck...

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The only thing propping up his whole world is Tesla's overvalued stock. Twitter is a money pit of his own making, SpaceX is still living on VC cash and has blown up two very expensive rockets. He spent the 2010s playing Tony Stark and generally catching a lot of compliments for his pie in the sky bullshit. The bill has come due on a lot of that and his pivot to politics has caused him to be ridiculed by everyone but the goofy right wing culture warriors, who no one actually wants close. Apparently getting booed at Chapelle's show really cut him deep and since then he's definitely been on a more pronounced spiral. X was supposed to be the everything app and he's probably seeing no one wants anything to do with it. He should also probably ask Grok for the definition of blackmail, because what he said isn't blackmail.

He’s simply returned to his home in perdition.

Okay what the hell are they all doing? Trump is polling at like 60% and the rest of them are fighting over what's left. Neat, the Kochs are backing Haley, maybe with some help she can pull ahead of Desantis... and still fall like 50 points short of Trump. Maybe if Vivek can fire off some more zingers at the next debate he can add another point to his single digit polling. None of them are going to be his Vice President. Are they all just politicians with nothing else in denial that they are part of a broken party now? Usually when someone is a one term President they go away for a long time, the Democrats weren't looking to give Carter another go in '84 and the Republicans weren't trying Bush again in '96. But the base of the GOP is sending back the guy who hasn't won the popular vote even once and the party is having a ceremonial primary with a group that seems to think it's a real contest. Maybe they're all rolling the dice on the Big Macs catching up with him or him going to jail or whatever.

I'm just way past feeling bad when bad things happen to bad people. Should prison be like that? No. Does it bother me even a little bit that Derek Chauvin got shivved? No.

Pfizer does seem to be in more places. I got Moderna the last couple times because I went looking for it. Walmart around me was doing Moderna.

Didn't their new CEO announce some official partnership with her not long ago? X CEO Linda Yaccarino announces exclusive partnership with Paris Hilton | Mashable MASHABLE.COM Just two tech queens maximizing their #sliving. Guess Nazi shit is where people draw the line. Also unrelated, that picture of Linda keeps being used everywhere and her legs weird me out every time... Like she needs leather pants that are colored just a little further from her skin tone than that...

I was sitting at a gate in the Cincinnati airport waiting for boarding to start on a flight to Newark one weekday morning and some business traveler trying to make conversation asked who I was with. I said I wrap burritos at Taco Bell, he didn't talk to me anymore.

What do you have to do to get sent for secondary inspection going into Canada? Last time I crossed into Canada they asked if I had marijuana in the car, I said no, and they let me in... This was back in June.

Maybe the Canadians were messing with the family

I honestly wish he would just go away, but he keeps burbling up from wherever every couple years to be awful.

I don't even get what that's a response to. Did he watch Star Trek, see a cashless society and get cold chills?